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Re:Uber Eats Nationwide Shipping by shtopointo on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:03PM (#31674124)
This must be a marketing thing, right? (I had to check the date to make sure it wasn't April 1st)

The use case is bagels or pizza across the country? If you don't eat those within the hour they're not good anymore. Other than that, I really can't think of a situation where I would be willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money for cold food.

Re:Uber Eats Nationwide Shipping by yellowapple on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:43PM (#31676707)
> If you don't eat those within the hour they're not good anymore.

Blasphemy. Pizza is best when served cold the next morning.

Re:Uber Eats Nationwide Shipping by erikpukinskis on Friday June 10, 2022 @04:15PM (#31698901)
> If you don't eat [bagels] within the hour they're not good anymore

This is a very New York/New Jersey perspective. And I respect that your palette is too refined to ever accept a non-fresh bagel.

But there are people who live outside of NY/NJ, who don't have a bagel shop down the street. And you may be surprised to learn that some of us love bagels, and will even eat a toasted bagel. I understand this is an abomination no New Yorker or New Jerseyan would ever touch. But I can assure you many of us with lower standards get quite a bit of joy out of a good re-toasted bagel. If a bagel is sliced and frozen shortly after baking it actually keeps fairly well.

Again, I can't recommend you ever try a toasted bagel yourself. You would certainly be disgusted by it, as any respectable New Yorker would be. But for the rest of us they can be quite enjoyable.

Re:Uber Eats Nationwide Shipping by dawnerd on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:21PM (#31674396)
Doordash has had similar. Such an incredible waste of resources.
Re:Uber Eats Nationwide Shipping by lotophage on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:19PM (#31676921)
I assume that they have to be reheated at the destination city before delivery. They may even be cooked there. In Australia several years ago you could get "freshly baked" French croissants from the supermarket. They were actually frozen "parbaked" goods that were cooked on the day.